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by zavulon 12y ago
Did you read the article? The point is you're making it worse by tweeting and making other public statements. You may win in court of public opinion, but you're making it easier for your opponent to beat you in actual court.
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by zavulon 12y ago
All your local team's games are going to be on free channels. Get a $8 rabbit ears antenna, or if you have a cable modem that provides internet only, get a splitter and plug the other end into TV (that you would normally plug into the
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by zavulon 12y ago
> Not sure I'd want my kids getting exposed to this at a young age. I don't have time to dig up a study on this, but pretty sure it was done - % of teenagers who tried pot in Amsterdam is much lower than in the States or other
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by zavulon 12y ago
Yeah, book is much better though, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend it! I wasn't able to find a way to present what we were doing as a product, and kept going with a traditional model of getting project specs, doing disco
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by zavulon 12y ago
Yes. 1/2 upfront for smaller projects, 1/3 for larger projects is the standard. For ongoing projects that you bill hourly instead of fixed cost, try to do retainer instead of invoicing and then getting paid a month later model. Ca
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by zavulon 12y ago
I didn't actually go ahead and implement it - I just couldn't make the math work. In my opinion, there are too many unknowns with this model - you're quoting the price of a project without knowing all features, talking about
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by zavulon 12y ago
Back when I was running a web development company, I toyed with this idea a few times, but couldn't find a way to do it and not lose money. Hope your experience is different. Good luck!
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by zavulon 12y ago
I LOVE the fact that you can now drag & drop images from your desktop directly the post, skipping the annoying "Add Media" step.
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by zavulon 13y ago
And wouldn't it make more sense to create a test GA account and just use the ID from there for everything, instead of generating randomly each time?
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by zavulon 13y ago
I'm so glad my family got out of Russia 17 years ago.
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by zavulon 13y ago
You can solve the live sports issue for the most part by getting free basic channels. You can do it in a lot of ways, one of an easy ones is get a $10 antenna. All local channels will be available to you for free, in HD. Then you can watch
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by zavulon 13y ago
I wrote a blog post about this back in 2005, when Hostel was coming out. It seems that's right about our fascination with torture on TV has started. While I cringe at my writing from 9 years ago, it seems like things have only gotten w
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by zavulon 13y ago
> most people who make the world run—who care for kids, who grow food, who would rebuild after natural disasters and societal collapse—will never be rich, no matter how hard or well they work, because society is constructed with only so
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by zavulon 13y ago
I wouldn't use a blanket statement like that, it's actually a lot more complicated. First of all, the tax system in Russia is set up that it's impossible to run a business without violating one tax law or the other. That setu
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by zavulon 13y ago
While I agree with you for US and Western Europe-based freelancers, it's not true for other places. When you live in a third-world country, Odesk/Elance are some of the only ways for you to make money as a freelancer.
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by zavulon 13y ago
Look at the comment to the article: > It's a shame when tech journalists don't understand tech. Of course, they outed their source. With the time stamp Uber can check which employees looked at that page at a particular time. Th
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by zavulon 13y ago
> “The surprising part is that Valleywag knowingly outed their own source. Valleywag actually knew the screenshot had identifying information of the individual leaker prior to them publishing this story,” Kalanick told TechCrunch in a st
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by zavulon 13y ago
Am I the only one who's slightly suspicious of these generic-looking positive comments from just registered users? > piscesnut 11 minutes ago | I just get my fb website in seconds. Never seen website building that easy! > averymo
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by zavulon 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback, these are all great points!
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by zavulon 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback! 1) Anything in particular that seems off with the design? 2) We've launched about a month ago, and we did receive some coverage already. but you're right - not all of this pertains directly to Quistic. The
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by zavulon 13y ago
Thanks! We're actually working on that already, recording videos now, should be live next week :)
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by zavulon 13y ago
Great catch, thanks!! Fixed.
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by zavulon 13y ago
> If I understand correctly, you'd like to charge money for courses about how to start a business, or do other things that people in their 20s need. Not really. Mostly, it's courses on how to get a better job, how to switch ind
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by zavulon 13y ago
Hi HN. Long-time reader, I rarely post but am very inspired by what I've read on HN over the years. Please critique the new creation!
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Show HN: Quistic(quistic.com)
13 points by zavulon 13y ago|14 comments
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by zavulon 13y ago
Das Keyboard is indeed great. I have the quiet version one, which is not really quiet, but makes far less noise than their main model.
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by zavulon 13y ago
I'm slapping my head and thinking "this is such a great idea, why didn't I think of that?". I'm sure lots of other people are doing the same, and it's a sign of a truly great idea. Congrats on launching!
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by zavulon 13y ago
I've read this entire paragraph, a couple of times, and still have no clue what your idea is.
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by zavulon 13y ago
LOL @ 'relatively successful and stable economy'. Their economy is entirely based on selling off natural resources (sell 5%, steal 95% for yourself). When those resources run out, entire country will be bankrupt. Source: I'm
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by zavulon 13y ago
It's not propaganda, it's the truth. I'm originally from Russia and it's like that, or much worse.

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